The Quaker Oats Company Information

A: The Quaker Oats Company was officially formed in 1901 when several American grain pioneers came together to incorporate the now familiar name. These pioneers were Ferdinand Schumacher, John Stuart, George Douglas and Henry Parsons Crowell. Q: Who is the man on the Quaker Oats box? Is it William Penn? A: The "Quaker man" is not an actual person. His image is that of a man dressed in Quaker garb, chosen because the Quaker faith projected the values of honesty, integrity, purity and strength. Q: When did you start making Quaker Instant Oatmeal? A: Quaker Instant Oatmeal was introduced in 1966, as the "regular" flavour only. Q: When did you introduce Quick Quaker Oats? A: Quick Quaker Oats were first introduced in 1921 in the U.S. when the 20 minute cooking oats were processed to cook in 5 minutes. The processing of Quick Quaker Oats was refined again in the 1950s to produce what we now know as one-minute cooking oats. Q: Do you donate products or sponsor events? A: PepsiCo Canada is committed to supporting the communities where we operate. To learn more about PepsiCo Canada's community strategy, please click here. As you might expect, PepsiCo Canada receives a tremendous amount of donation and sponsorship inquiries. Although we'd like to meet each local request, it's simply impossible to manage the enormous need on this kind of basis. Instead we form partnerships with national charitable partners to assist Canadians in the broadest possible manner. Keeping that in mind, we can no longer accept unsolicited donation and sponsorship requests. Q: When did Quaker become part of PepsiCo? A: PepsiCo, Inc., acquired The Quaker Oats Company in August, 2001. Q: Do you give tours? A: For insurance, product, and human safety reasons, we are unable to have public tours of our plants or headquarters.